what it says on the tin. movies and what I feel about them. I give hearts instead of star rankings because how much I like a movie doesn't always correlate with how good I think the movies is
I watched this while thinking I had lost my car+house keys so my baseline anxiety level was already pretty high (I did end up finding my keys after the movie) and the movie didn't help LOL. I liked it better than the first smile because the protagonist was more fun to follow around as a returning pop star vs a psychologist taking a break. the jump scares did end up getting me. still have a distaste for the overall message of the film which I read as depression being inescapable.
cried like three times and then sat in my car and cried for ten more minutes. a raw, unfiltered look at what it's like to be an artist and experience the full range of human emotions when it comes to your work. a love letter to artists and a passionate exploration of grief and loss. I have to keep drawing. I have to keep making art. because there's someone out there who needs it.
I really wish I liked this movie more but I think ultimately I just wasn't the target audience. the tone felt strained between grounded, serious issues like lisa's mom being murdered and that affecting her greatly and then unserious stuff like how is lisa able to hide a whole ass corpse in her room when he probably stinks to high heavens. there's a level of suspension of disbelief I couldn't justify. but I can see how this movie is loved; I think the creature's acting without speaking was great, and the set design and outfits are fantastic. just a little too tonally dissonant for me.
I don't know a damn thing about transformers other than what is shown during the transformers ride at universal orlando studios. that being said this was kinda peam (peak). I got invested in the optimus and megatron doomed yaoi and I care bumblebee. really fun visuals as well.
I don't... entirely feel like we needed this... I feel the same way towards a quiet place 2 as I did the first one. where the concept is interesting but I don't feel like enough was done with it. I like that there's more worldbuilding to this one and we get to see how the apocalypse started, but it still feels like it's missing something for me.
as usual with the v/h/s series, this one was a mixed bag. I really enjoyed ozzy's dungeon as it was so reminiscent of the legends of the hidden temple show that I used to watch as a kid. suicide bid genuinely scared me for a moment before it took a hard turn into the paranormal. still way better than viral though
watched this for halloween horror nights prep. it's a perfectly serviceable mainstream horror movie, which I don't say as an insult, I just know my tastes lean a little more esoteric. I like the concept of a "quiet" horror movie but I kind of feel like not enough was done with it? it just left me feeling like "hm, ok, that was alright" without any strong feelings.
I made the objective decision to censor the sicknasty spinal wound on the poster becuase I felt it was a bit too gnarly for the regular movie page on my site. that aside. I think this is genuinely my favorite horror movie of 2024, with longlegs as a close second. gutwrenching, sickening, with a third act that is balls to the wall insane. I absolutely love the hypersaturated style of this director and am excited to see what else she makes.
asmr for sickos (me). I had expected a lot of walking punctuated with bouts of intense hyperviolence and that's what it is. the gore felt kind of detached? emotionally speaking? it's hard to explain the feeling... I don't think it was bad persay, since you're seeing things through the eyes of the killer and like, the killer would not feel anything about brutally murdering people LMAO. I think the lack of non-diagetic soundtrack contributed to that. idk I think the movie had a unique feel and while I'm sure some people were bored out of their skull imo it was a very smart parody of the slasher genre.
objectively speaking this movie was a bit messy and had a few two many plotlines to tie them up neatly together. unobjectively I had a blast and while it was a little slow getting to the fun part once the ball got rolling it was Rolling. obsessed with beetlejuice's ex-wife. he fumbled a baddie.
so like. this was a rewatch for me because after the dumpster fire that was v/h/s: viral I didn't want to go to bed on a sour note. so I put on v/h/s/94 since I had watched it before and knew I liked it. and yeah, maybe I'm biased since this was the first entry in the v/h/s series I watched, but it's still my favorite. I genuinely think each of the shorts in this have something interesting about them. I'm torn between storm drain or the subject as my favorite from this entry.
oh man. this one Suckeddddddddd. going from v/h/s/2 to viral was like sliding down a water slide onto concrete instead of the expected pool of water. the wraparound story sucked (just a stupid concept imo) and the first short Super Sucked (did away with found footage almost entirely, was barely horror). the parallel worlds one was probably the most interesting, although it still pales in comparison to my favorites from some of the other v/h/s entries. the skateboarders vs cultists one was dumb, but at least it was dumb in a fun way. the overall theme for this one was just all over the place, and the focus on "going viral" just felt like a boomer trying to stereotype zoomers.
I watched the first v/h/s (and 94) a whileeee ago but dead meat is picking up the series (at the time of me writing this) so I decided to go through the rest of the v/h/s series after insidious because I still needed background noise while I was working on HHN art, this time a lanyard I'm making for my friends and I. I think I enjoyed this one marginally more than the first v/h/s; with the first short absolutely being the weakest. safe haven was sick as hell.
the movie that the insidious house for HHN 2024 is actually based on! I just decided to be insane and watch all the movies to have the full context. I want to get my HHN homework done this year or else. anyways this was by far the worst of the series. do NOT go to art school. had perhaps the least amount of lin shaye so far which was a detriment. I can't pinpoint what exactly I thought was bad about it so much as it just felt terrifically stale, being five movies into the series now.
aka insidious four. once again! we didn't need this movie but we sure did! I'm pretty sure at this point I was giving it points for having lin shaye, an actress in her 70's, be the leading role in a mainstream horror series. which like, disregarding how I feel about the rest of the series (terrifically mid), I think that's pretty cool. anyways uhhh the key demon had a cool design. that's it.
I watched all the insidious movies (aside from the first one) back to back while I was drawing stickers for HHN because I knew I would not watch five movies of a middling horror movie series otherwise. chapter three is when things start to go from "this is silly and not great but I'm still having fun" to "they didn't need to make this movie but they sure did". it's literally just OK and the fact that I can't remember anything distinguishing about this movie other than it wasn't the worst thing ever is telling enough
another one I watched for prep for HHN 2024. I unexpectedly liked this one more than the first insidious? still a goofy movie but in a fun way. I kind of liked the interleaving timelines gimmick they had and how it brought more context to scenes in the first movie
idk how I never got around to watching this while it was in theaters because melissa barrera is one of the leads and I want to watch any horror movie with her in it. anyways I knew very little about this movie going into it and that was for the better. it is also kind of goofy but I like horror movies that don't take themselves seriously. I might be biased in rating this high because I loved melissa's performance but it was a fun watch overall.
part of my prep for HHN 33. a throughly unserious movie and I mean that with love. I don't know if it just hasn't aged well, seeing as the tropes present in the movie have now been done to death in the decade since it was released, but I thought it was not scary and was extremely funny.
I had a lot of fun with this movie! I thought andy was a really interesting character and the shots of space were really cool... the characters other than andy, rain, and rook were kind of Whatever tho.
it's a classic for a reason! sigourney weaver is fantastic, the xenomorph is such an iconic design, and all the practical effects hold up (and in the case of the chestburster, I think are better than today's CGI).
I love when horror movies are just batshit insane without explanation. could not explain the monster in this movie to you. so many different plot points competing for attention. but the vibes were impeccable and hunter schafer does a knock out job as the lead.
watched as a palette cleanser from the instigators and also to prepare for halloween horror nights 33. tense and dark; got me rooting for the kids to win. the grabber's mask is well designed; I like the modular style of it.
saw because it was a $5 mystery movie at my local theater and I thought it would be one of the horror movies coming out shortly. only for it to be a made for streaming comedy/heist movie where the jokes didn't land and the action scenes were hampered by attempts at comedy. boowhomp.
thriller movie with an interesting premise that is unfortunately brought down by the need to continuously up the stakes. I thought josh hartnett did a really good job with his face acting and I liked the snippets of the concert we got.
I watched this like a month after I watched the other ghostbusters movies. I like being back in new york city and the monster of the week. I kinda feel like he was underutilized at the end though...? anyways yayyy ghostbusters fambly.
god I love horror movies that just like. have a Mood and an Atmosphere and embrace that. the plot is kind of muddy, but tbh I can put that aside because the movie's visuals and acting were so sublime. nic cage was especially good as the titular longlegs
the final movie in the x/pearl/maxxxine trilogy, but I think it wasn't as strong as the other two. very giallo and I think it would have been better if it leaned into that inspiration even more. maxine didn't feel like she had as much agency as in x.
I liked the new cast for this reboot. I did think it was a little. mean spirited? at points? hard to explain... I think its a little weird that the ghostbusters are so like. unliked in universe. phoebe spangler you are so audhd to me.
I thought this movie was cool when I first saw it in theaters and nearly a decade later I still think it rips!!! ghostbusters (2016) clears when you don't have a bitch in your ear telling u how it ruined their childhood or whatever. I think the humor in here is a little marvel-y for my taste but also my sense of humor is insane so I won't dock it much for that
derivative but still interesting. the sheer audacity of piloting the statue of liberty like a mech gives it an extra half a heart. they fucked that slime...
believe it or not I had never watched the original ghostbusters before deciding on a bus to new york city this past july I was going to do a back to back ghostbusters marathon to prepare for HHN 33. it was a lot more bonkers than I expected. the casual 80's sexism was a letdown ngl.
I watched this with a japanese dub on a flight to orlando and then watched it again with the english casting with my florida friends. it is perfectly servicable as a pg-13 horror movie. practical effects were cool.
one of the most movies of all time. funny and heartbreaking all at once. when I got to the line about doing taxes with you, I almost burst into tears.
did not expect the movie to open up with 40 minutes of john kramer dealing with his own mortality but here we are. gnarly traps, kramer getting fleshed out beyond jigsaw, and a truly evil villain to make jigsaw look like the good guy.
re-animator but make it an artsy and contemplative psychological thriller instead of a schlocky and gross b-movie. very much a slowburn; the last 13 minutes hit like a truck.
usually I hate horror movies where the protagonists are inept but it works for when evil lurks. it's a movie about failure, and it revels in the chaos caused by the failure. no one is safe.
I think the hype for this one ruined it for me because I was expecting something totally off the wall and I got something... more subdued than that. I felt kind of bored at times. the ending sequence is certainly a choice.